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Richard Gasquet, the French tennis player, escaped a long ban for cocaine use after a tribunal accepted that he may have ingested the drug by accident. Gasquet explained that he had been kissing a stranger known only as Pamela at a nightclub before failing the test.

‘We conclude that it is more likely than not that the cocaine detected in the player’s urine sample entered by means of Pamela’s kissing between about 2am and 5am that morning,’ the tribunal noted.

‘We conclude that Pamela had herself, deliberately or otherwise, ingested cocaine before contaminating the player.’

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Taser-hit man burst into flames

A man in Western Australia was engulfed in flames when police officers fired a Taser stun gun at him.

Police say they used the Taser on Ronald Mitchell, 36, when he ran at them carrying a container of petrol and a cigarette lighter.

They said that Mr Mitchell, who lives in a remote Aboriginal community, had been sniffing petrol. They suggested the cigarette lighter started the fire.

Mr Mitchell is in a critical condition in hospital with third degree burns.

Western Australia Police say they went to the community of Warburton, about 1,500 km (950 miles) north-east of Perth, in response to a complaint.

They say they used the Taser on Mr Mitchell when he came out of the house and ran at them.

He burst into flames. One officer pushed him to the ground and smothered the fire with his bare hands, police said.

Mr Mitchell’s sister told The Australian newspaper that her brother had been sniffing petrol.

“He must have put petrol on his face, then the policeman shot him with the Taser, that’s when the flames happened,” she said.

Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan said Mr Mitchell was a known violent offender, and defended the police officers’ deployment of the Taser.

He told reporters: “The only other choice they would have had is to use a police-issue firearm, and the consequences would almost certainly have been far more grave.”

He said the police internal affairs department would investigate the incident, saying there was “a very strong possibility that the fire was caused by the lighter in the hand of the offender”.

Mr Mitchell was charged with assault to prevent arrest and possession of a sniffing substance.

Dennis Eggington, of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia, called for an urgent review of Taser use.

Aboriginal people, he said, were often in poor health, which made them particularly vulnerable to stun weapons.

A Taser works by firing two barbs which penetrate the skin and discharge 50,000 volts along two copper wires attached to the gun.

Amnesty International has called them “potentially lethal”.

Aboriginals in the bush are strange sorts. we were in a place once and young lad offered to pay us $50 to get him a 350ml coke bottle of petrol. didnt want to get caught up in his shit tho, as petrol is banned in some remote towns because of problems of petrol sniffing.

this is a picture on the BBC website of how a lot of them would be around towns in NT or up north of WA.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45123000/jpg/45123872-31.jpg
just a heap of them sitting around on the side of the road doing nothing.

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[quote=“Gman”]Aboriginals in the bush are strange sorts. we were in a place once and young lad offered to pay us $50 to get him a 350ml coke bottle of petrol. didnt want to get caught up in his shit tho, as petrol is banned in some remote towns because of problems of petrol sniffing.

this is a picture on the BBC website of how a lot of them would be around towns in NT or up north of WA.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45123000/jpg/45123872-31.jpg
just a heap of them sitting around on the side of the road doing nothing.[/QUOTE]

Racist pig

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as you’d say yourself, huh??? where is the racist element of the post? :wink:

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from rte.ie

Garda are investigating new allegations by a number of women against a man who posed as a doctor and put his then fiance’s life at risk by pretending to treat her for a serious illness.

Michael Ward from Clash Road, Little Island in Cork, who recklessly endangered the life of his 38-year-old fiance, was sentenced to six years in prison at the Central Criminal Court today.

Ward, 32, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty last week after his victim testified in court.

AdvertisementMr Justice Peter Charleton said he was not impressed by the fact that Ward put his victim in a situation where she had to prove what he already knew had happened to her.

He also commended the courage of the woman who asked that Ward be named and identified to ensure that nothing like this happens to someone’s daughter or sister.

In the words of the woman, Ward deceived, manipulated and betrayed her when he pretended he was a doctor.

But he also put her life in danger when he took over the clinical management of her illness.

She was advised by the Wel Woman Clinic to go to hospital but Ward told her ‘they haven’t a clue’ and he, without any medical qualifications, prescribed her antibiotics and dosed her with compounds.

He carried out procedures on her in their Dublin flat where she had to lie still for three hours on the floor while he claimed to anaesthetise her, give her injections and treat her.

He subsequently said she was cured, but within weeks she was diagnosed with a tumour that had to be removed within a week.

The tumour carried a substantial risk of death and the delay in her treatment caused her serious harm. She remains gravely ill.

Mr Justice Charleton said this was a very serious case of reckless endangerment and he sentenced Ward to six years in prison but suspended the last year.

Since the case began, a number of other women have come forward and made similar allegations against him to the garda.

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The weirdo gave her injections up the gee, as far as I know, with a medical syringe. What an oddball. Anyone see any photos of yer wan?

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fucking freak:mad: he should be getting a lethal injection along with that psycho cunt in galway and the traveller rapist

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good to see you have mellowed since you were last with us

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there’s a person going around raping travellers?:eek:

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sorry bout the source

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/judge-jails-c-case-rapist-for-dreadful-evil-act-424349.html

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“Cleopatra” are back

The Brummie-born Brit award winners are shovelling sex down our throats in a new campaign for Daim bar. And we’ll be seeing even more of the chocaholics later this year when their new album is released.

Oddest comeback ever?

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Australia fuming after pitch brawl mars women’s U19 championship

Australia denied penalty and have centre-back sent off

Matildas’ coach labels fracas in Wuhan ‘embarrassing’

guardian.co.uk, Monday 3 August 2009 21.53 BST

The Asian Women’s Under-19 Championship witnessed shocking scenes in Wuhan tonight as the Australia team were pelted with bottles by a highly charged crowd following a mass brawl at the end of China’s match against the Young Matildas.

China won the Group B encounter 21 to secure a place in the semi-finals of the competition but had their backs to the wall as the Australians pushed for an equaliser. Australia were also denied a penalty when Kyah Simon was brought down two yards inside the area and a free-kick outside was awarded. To compound their frustration, the centre-back Jessica Seaman was sent off on the stroke of full-time. (MBB :smiley: )

However, following the final whistle, an Australia player fell to the ground while remonstrating with the Chinese, prompting the captain, Tameka Butt, to charge across the pitch and grab the perceived offender. That sparked a mass brawl as both sets of players and backroom staff charged on to the pitch, with punches thrown.

Once order was restored, plastic water bottles were thrown from the crowd in the direction of the Australian team whose ages range from 15 to 19 as they made their way down the tunnel with police imploring fans to stop.

Nobody was seriously injured but the Australia coach, Alen Stajcic, was furious with what happened. “We’ve prepared for 12 months, to have an embarrassing sporting event take place like that in China. That’s not sport,” he said.

“Sport is played by two equal teams battling for sporting supremacy, not that kind of behaviour. On the field, off the field, it’s not good enough. I’d be embarrassed if I were the host of this event after that game. You all saw what happened out there, it’s embarrassing.”

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:eek:

Cheating husband ambushed by wife and lovers

A married man who planned a motel tryst with one of his several lovers was instead ambushed by four of them, including his wife.

Donessa Davis was lured into a room by Therese Ziemann where he agreed to a bondage session, but once he was securely tied up she, her sister Michelle Belliveau, Wendy Sewell, and wife Tracy Hood-Davis attacked him.

The womens plot unfolded last Thursday at the Lakeview Motel near the scenic shores of Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin.

Ziemann struck the man in the face, and used glue to attach his penis to his stomach.

He started screaming and the women ran off worried that he could get loose and hurt them, but took his wallet, car and phone.

Ziemann told police she met the man online, fell in love and paid for a room at the motel for the past two months. She said she gave him about $3,000 (2,000).

Then last Wednesday, she learned from his wife that he was married, had other girlfriends and was using them for money.

During the confrontation Sewell asked him: Which one do you love more? and the his wife made a derisive remark about him being scared.

Now the women face up to six years in prison. Sewell, Therese Ziemann, 48, of Menasha, Michelle Belliveau, 43, of Neenah, and the mans wife are charged with being party to false imprisonment.

Ziemann also is charged with fourth-degree sexual assault.

All have been released on 150 bail.

Sewell said after her arrest: I am disturbed. I am upset. I am having a hard time handling life, an emotional wreck.

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Paul O’Grady held at airport over communist fears

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Wed Aug 12

Paul O’Grady has revealed that he was held by officials at a US airport because they thought he was a communist.

The TV presenter said he was taken aside for questioning at Miami airport by staff who made the assumption because of his ‘funny’ accent.

He was then held for two hours while an officer accused him of being an ‘illegal alien’ from Cuba.

He told listeners of his Radio 2 show: “How could I be accused of being an illegal Cuban alien? Do I look Cuban? Do I sound Cuban?”

He added: “I’ve been to hell, folks - it’s called Miami airport.”

The Channel 4 star was later released after the customs officials studied his passport and found no links with Cuba.

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Always thought there was something queer about him.

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:rolleyes:

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Azerbaijanis in Eurovision probe

Forty-three people in Azerbaijan who voted for a song by neighbouring Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest have been questioned by the police.
One man told the BBC he was accused of being unpatriotic and a “potential security threat”, after he sent a text backing Armenia’s song, Jan Jan.

The Azerbaijani authorities said people had merely been invited to explain why they voted for Armenia.

The two states fought over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in the 1990s.

In November 2008, the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders agreed to intensify their efforts to find a political settlement to the row over the territory.

They said they had made significant progress at talks in Prague in May on the sidelines of the EU’s Eastern Partnership summit.

The BBC’s South Caucasus correspondent, Tom Esslemont, says it is unclear why the Azeri authorities have chosen to call people in for questioning three months after this year’s Eurovision song contest.

Civil rights campaigners say freedom of expression is increasingly suppressed in Azerbaijan under the presidency of Ilham Aliyev.

Through this latest row, some have even accused his government of attempting to provoke tensions with Armenia, 15 years after the war over Nagorno-Karabakh left the two countries scarred and bitterly divided, our correspondent says.

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Man eats dog

Sunday, August 16 02:54 pm

Paea Taufu, a Tongan-born man living in Auckland New Zealand was in the process of roasting his pitbull terrier-cross in a traditional Umu pit-barbecue when animal protection inspectors arrived to investigate.

They were called by a concerned member of the public on Sunday but arrived too late for the animal.

Dog meat is considered an acceptable fare in Tonga. “Dog, horse, we eat it in Tonga. It’s good food for us,” said Lupi Taufu, Paea’s wife.

Under New Zealand’s Animal Welfare Act it is legal to kill a dog providing the slaughter is done quickly and painlessly.

But the local Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) has criticised the actions. “I find it quite disturbing that someone would kill a pet and then eat it. I’m not okay with that but unfortunately the law allows you to do it,” SPCA Inspector Derek Haddy told reporters.

Taufu was not aware that he was doing something uncommon in New Zealand but indicated he would not kill another dog to avoid offending anyone in the future.

Proper order, these do-gooding cunts trying to tell a man what he can and can’t do.

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[SIZE=“2”]Chelsea youngsters in amazing friendly brawl[/SIZE]
24.08.09 | tribalfootball.com

Chelsea face an investigation over a training ground friendly melee.

The News of the World says the practice game, arranged at short notice by Chelsea on Wednesday, was abandoned after just 35 minutes amid amazing scenes. Players, coaches and officials from Chelsea’s reserve team and United Arab Emirates side Al Hilal traded blows for five minutes.

Chelsea players were assaulted with karate kicks, knee-high tackles and had their hair pulled out and their eyes gouged.

Defender Jack Cork, who has since gone on loan to Coventry and sported a black eye in his new side’s 1-0 defeat to Swansea, was put in a headlock and repeatedly hit.

The referee, who will not be named by the FA, has written to Soho Square with the full, astonishing details of the battle.

The scenes, which were recorded by the club’s in-house TV station ChelseaTV and are now locked in a safe, were so brutal some kids fled in tears.

A stunned eye witness revealed: “There were people being chased all over the pitch, eyes were being gouged, hair was being pulled out and one of the Al Hilal players shoved his fingers up the nose of Gael Kakuta. Every player was involved but Chelsea didn’t start it.”

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[quote=“Shadow”][SIZE=“2”]Chelsea youngsters in amazing friendly brawl[/SIZE]
24.08.09 | tribalfootball.com

Chelsea face an investigation over a training ground friendly melee.

A stunned eye witness revealed: “There were people being chased all over the pitch, eyes were being gouged, hair was being pulled out and one of the Al Hilal players shoved his fingers up the nose of Gael Kakuta. Every player was involved but Chelsea didn’t start it.”[/quote]

The bastard!